Source: Charlie Weis Dug Up The Gipper

TRAVERSE CITY, MI - A source close to the Houghton County [MI] Medical Examiner's Office has informed The Daily Redundancy that the recent exhumation of George Gipp may have involved current Notre Dame football coach Charlie Weis. Gipp, a Notre Dame football legend who died during his senior year in 1920, was the inspiration for Knute Rockne's famous 'win one for the Gipper' speech later immortalized in film. His body was exhumed for unexplained reasons on October 4, just two days before Notre dame's first victory of the season over UCLA.

The source, who spoke with us on the condition of anonymity, said that the exhumation was allegedly for DNA testing, and that the request involved a person unrelated to Gipp. "It seems pretty weird that someone would want to dig him up after 90 years." said the source. "Usually these things are for some kind of paternity test. But hell, that kid would be dead by now." The source also said that a man matching Weis' description was seen eating breakfast at the Highway 72 Truck Stop earlier that day.

"He was desperate for a win, he very well may have done something desperate." said Franklin Templeton, professor of sports psychology at the University of Michigan. "After one of the worst starts in school history, he had probably run out of sources of inspiration. What could be more inspiring than a piece of the Gipper?"

"It was obvious they had some kind of lucky charm." said UCLA coach Karl Dorrell. "They only had 140 yards and we had seven turnovers and lost by 14. That Gipper's still got karma."

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